admirate

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English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from admiration. Equivalent to admire +‎ -ate.

Verb

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admirate (third-person singular simple present admirates, present participle admirating, simple past and past participle admirated)

  1. (non-native speakers' English) To admire.
    • 2000 February 14, schles...@my-deja.com, “Dr. Laura and Oprah”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:
      I admirate Oprah's capital gains, but as far as her moral life, well, she's a fat whore!
    • 2000 July 24, Hugette.Lespine, “Croats, Serbs and Muslims”, in alt.fifty-plus.friends[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:
      We are very admirating of him in France.
    • 2004 April 13, dom's, “What's on the cd player”, in alt.music.led-zeppelin[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:
      In fact, Miles went into jazz-rock-funk by deeply participating to create this musical movement end of 60s. So, during this period, he mixed influnces[sic] from Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone in jazz and was admirating those musicians.
    • 2010 June 21, Merciadri Luca, “Animated trees”, in comp.text.tex[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-21:
      Yes, but that means that Robin's link is incorrect!
      (But that does not prevent me from admirating Robin's actions for TeX stuff.)

Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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admirate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of admiri

Latin

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Participle

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admīrāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of admīrātus

Spanish

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Verb

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admirate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of admirar combined with te